Decolonization Gods&Radicals Decolonization Gods&Radicals

Popes and Palaces: Lifting the Veil from Sacred to Sovereign Power

Mapping power as a continuum of symbolic authority, tracing the evolution and performance of legitimacy — from altar to throne, from sanctity to sovereignty —, is a cultural and political critique exposing how public reverence for religious and royal figures acts as a symbolic veil concealing the violent continuities of colonialism, neocoloniality, and capitalism.

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Ian Blumberg-Enge Ian Blumberg-Enge

On the Possibility of Sex in Space, a Serious Joke

The frontier of space is now a reality of human experience, but we can rest assured that, despite the best efforts of authoritarians everywhere, perverts, artists, and kooks of all kinds will utilize the frontier of space to find new ways to express their immense amounts of creativity, not just in sex but in music, poetry, sculpture, philosophy, drug use, painting, science, and storytelling.

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